There is a personal project and I'm still working on it. The goal is improving texturing skills in Mari, moving to Maya, Arnold and Renderman. I decided to try Arnold first. It looks quite friendly. The standard shader has almost everything you need. TX Manager is a great tool because it helps to speed up the rendering process dramatically. Especially, if there are many UV tiles, different and huge textures.
I used Xuan Prada's turntable for Maya/Arnold. I found it very simple and useful.
I've rendered the animated turntable with mantra so far.
Work in progress:
